Example sentences of "[noun sg] know [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For standing on the , on the seats you see , which I mean my father was right he 'd got the experience to know that several men had been drowned like that . |
| 2 | How , for example , could an outsider know that normative consensus in the speech community does not permit backing in velar environments or fronting in most other environments , or that sonorants followed by voiceless obstruents predict a front vowel ? |
| 3 | Every soldier knew that average life expectancy at the front was seventeen days . |
| 4 | But then Chant knew that sacred places — and Gamut Street was sacred in its way — survived on occasion because they went unseen , even in plain sight . |
| 5 | But he was careful not to think , because some corner of his mind knew that that way lay a kind of death , of Hal in Chester , quite certainly notified , or soon to be notified , by Hotspur or another , of the long day 's work done at Homildon Hill six days ago . |
| 6 | Industry knows that such policies would be absolutely disastrous to it and knows from what source those policies would come , which is why its hostility to the Opposition 's policies is so severe . |
| 7 | A deliberate attempt was made in 1966 to make assistance known and acceptable , when it became known as supplementary benefits . |
| 8 | As a result of this , it is now possible to leave a natural history museum knowing that some fleas can jump 130 times their own height , and that elephants can not jump at all , and that as many as a thousand dead ants have been found inside the stomach of a single mole . |
| 9 | Winter knew that three key departmental managers would be retiring between mid 1985 and 1987 . |
| 10 | On overseas aid , the hon. Lady knows that this year we have yet again increased the amount of money that is spent on that . |
| 11 | Did her husband know that this was his 13,870th breakfast with Mrs Surb ? |
| 12 | ( 10 ) If the property is leasehold : ( a ) please confirm that the seller has complied with all the covenants in the lease ; ( b ) does the seller know whether any items of substantial expenditure for decoration , maintenance or repair have been carried out by the lessors recently but not yet charged to tenants , or are any such contemplated in the near future ? ( 11 ) Is the seller aware of any overriding interest under the Land Registration Act 1925 , s70(1) ? ( 12 ) Please confirm : ( a ) that all gas and electrical installations are the seller 's absolute property and are included in the purchase price ; ( b ) that the electric light installations down to the bulb holders will be left intact ; ( c ) that all furniture , furnishings and fittings not included in the sale and all rubbish will be removed before completion . |
| 13 | It is also important for the teacher to know if any treatment is being given , such as eye drops , whether exercises have been prescribed and if there is any restriction on physical activities such as diving or lifting heavy weights . |
| 14 | But how do the team know that this is what their viewers want to see ? |
| 15 | Well , she was a doctor , and she knew enough about human physiology to know that healthy men and women sometimes reacted to each other in the most devastating ways . |
| 16 | When rioting broke out Eva was concerned for their safety knowing that all the other neighbours were Sinhalese . |
| 17 | Tug knew that that last bit about the terrorists ' demands was a lie . |
| 18 | Now we all know because we 're print buyers to a larger or greater degree but they 're clients they over-estimate they add about twenty five per cent more on than they need and you have to send them back to sharpen their pencils several times before you 've seen the estimate , they of course know that all print buyers are idiots who keep forgetting all the important things and do n't give them half the information they need like the weight of paper or the fact that there 's to be a pocket at the back so , I think if we got the man I think if we maybe started off with H M S O the print buyer which is more akin to what we are and say well you know these are the problems I 've got I 'm sitting with a six million pound budget buying for the whole of the government of Scotland and I have problems and these are the problems that I have , then we get to the wee man from who says now wait a minute boys I get the rubbish that you send out , that was the message and let's make it funny but slightly aggressive let's highlight the real problems because that 's what it 's about , we 're not here for a nice night we 're here to learn |
| 19 | These figures of speech — hyperbole , metaphor , irony , sarcasm — work only if the sender has enough knowledge to know that average house cellars will not hold millions of bottles , women are not made of iron , and so on . |
| 20 | None the less , observers of animal behaviour know that altruistic acts with differing degrees of self-sacrifice are of common occurrence , ranging from parental care to group defence and rescue behaviour to complex forms of co-operation . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend knows that one of the changes that we are introducing is much fairer funding of health authorities throughout the land to reflect , among other things , the age structure . |
| 22 | My right hon. Friend knows that set-aside has been regarded primarily as a restraint on production . |
| 23 | For four days the slimmer knows that all he or she has consumed at the end of each day is the 1,000 calories contained in the meals . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman knows that many local authorities could use quicker reletting procedures and faster procedures for the repair and maintenance of properties to reduce the gap between one tenant leaving and another moving in . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman knows that that allegation is untrue , but I am glad that he accepts that the quality of service has improved and that there have been improvements in the pricing of a number of British Telecom services . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman knows that that is the case , and he also knows that there has been an increase in net spending at all levels of income in this country . |
| 27 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman knows that that figure was forced upon him by Ministers collectively . |
| 28 | My right hon. Friend the leader of the Labour party has never said what the right hon. Gentleman has suggested — and the right hon. Gentleman knows that that is the case . |
| 29 | The hon. Gentleman knows that hon. Members on both sides of the House share his concern about certain kinds of service . |
| 30 | The hon. Gentleman knows that those on income support were given increased income support to enable them to pay their 20 per cent . |